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biolizardboils · 1 year

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seriously, please support your local library!

Songs used:

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

Library Card by Michael Yarmush from Arthur and The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape)

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#arthur #pbs kids #marc brown #arthur read #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #library card #library card song #tubthumping #chumbawamba #mashups #mashup #jams #me talking #oh yeah ziggy marley's in there too!#my mashups

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oneatlatime · 6 months

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The Library

Ground hog pipe organ. That's really quite twee.

Since when is Sokka concerned about the time crunch? Although he's right about the whole 'no plan' thing.

Katara is such a little sister sometimes.

Is an ice spring a thing? I feel like we wouldn't have invented refrigeration if ice springs were possible. What a cool idea though.

Dentists aren't a thing in the avatar universe.

Does sword guy sterilise those swords between drinks? How clean are the insides of the sheaths? Why is someone so overqualified working as a blender? How boring is this town that master swordsmen resort to being Magic Bullets to pass the time?

Has it ever occurred to Aang to try to maintain a little mystery around his identity? At the start of the first season, people's first thoughts when seeing an airbender were probably "wow! the fire nation missed one!" but by now it has to be well known that the airbender ping ponging around the earth kingdom is THE avatar. It's not like he didn't have other options. He could have waterbended the smoothie away. He could have asked Katara to waterbend the smoothie away. If I were feeling angsty, I'd say that a child of peacetime just doesn't have it in him to be sufficiently suspicious/cynical to feel the need to disguise himself. But I'm not feeling angsty, so I'm gonna say that Aang had a moment of dumb. Understandable, given he's twelve.

Nevermind! Aang accurately assessed how little he needed to hide himself because this professor is a dumb too!

Cool it with the phrenology.

Finding lost civilisations all over the earth kingdom is apparently a worthless accomplishment. You know, I don't like this guy.

Clam lamp. Coconut lamp?

That fox joke did not land.

This is the Taj Mahal.

Toph's still on probation. Gotta work six months* before you get the benefits package! * or until the world ends with the comet, whichever comes first.

Sokka wants to vacation in a library. I love how unrepentantly nerdy he can be.

Hey. Professor idiot. Wanna find your unfindable library? Go recruit Zuko. That kid finds so well it gives me flashbacks to Hufflepuff jokes.

Not sure what this implies re: the sapience of sandbenders.

The sandbenders have to have learned that move from airbenders. Also isn't that really inefficient? Rotational force goes 360 degrees but they only want force in a single direction. They should have modeled their sandbending on waterbending instead and created a giant wave behind their sleds for them to surf along.

That chin needs scritches.

I hope they're bringing lots of water rations with them. How much water do you thing Appa needs in a day?

Would Sokka, who lives at the South Pole, know what a fox is?

Everyone keeps forgetting stuff this episode. Library is buried? You have two earthbenders and two airbenders.

Love the attitude.

This has been bugging me for a few episodes now so I might as well mention it. I know it's an artistic choice, but: having fingernails the same colour as fingers squicks me out.

Sokka's turn with the dumb. Why would you climb up to the library when three of you can fly? Appa can hover. Just walk down his tail to the window.

That's twice now they've forgetten Toph's blindness. I love her attitude towards them forgetting.

Sokka's boomerang is one hell of a multitool. Whatever it's made of, it's indestructible.

"Don't worry buddy. I'm not making you go underground ever again." I hope that's not ironic foreshadowing.

Stuffed head of anthropology might be an improvement.

The vocal effect on this owl is neat.

Dammit. Now stealing from the pirates is justified.

Why do you even have that? Why did you stuff it down your shirt? Just why?

*Heroically refrains from going on a rant about the value of non-written sources, oral tradition, and pejoratively labelled 'folk' knowledge.*

The Ears!!! Those cute little ears. They have no business being so floppy. Appa & Toph, the duo I never knew I needed.

Appa is a very good listener.

LEFTY SHOUTOUT!!!

Sokka has not only forgotten that he's after a map of the fire nation; he's also stolen the declaration of independence.

Two things: First, this is the best boy. Second, Sokka seems to be a cat person.

You think the Fire Nation, a Nation that knew enough astronomy to correctly predict, plan for, and harness the power of a comet to complete a very successful genocide, doesn't know there's an eclipse coming up and has planned accordingly? Like come on. They named the comet after their Firelord. They obviously know how astronomy works. It would take literally one eclipse, depriving them of their bending once, for the whole nation to become suddenly very invested in predicting the movements of celestial bodies. They know this. I promise you they have safeguards in place. Pick a less obvious time to attack.

So is the owl gullible as all hell or did he let them in to give them enough rope to hang themselves?

Badass line about justifying war. Although equating protecting the people you love with hoarding library books does not hold water.

This owl has far too much neck.

HOW strong is Toph?

This owl sure is destroying a lot of his books.

Sokka doesn't know that Toph is holding up the library right? And there's no way for him to know how quickly/slowly the library is sinking. So this date checking montage makes no sense. Maybe he will find out the date, but if he's sealed underground then it doesn't matter that he learned it.

Do not like.

Very much DO NOT LIKE.

Did they just kidnap Appa?

Should have told him to yip yip. Does Toph know Yip yip?

I am a big fan of Sokka style. Although I'm glad this show aired a decade before Gangnam Style came out, otherwise the memes would have been insufferable.

The owl is going to eat you as soon as it wakes up. Did you see a cafeteria? A water source? Even if you hide from the owl you'll be dead in a week.

Massive points to Toph for holding that up as everyone inside was delaying for stupid reasons.

No.

No you have to give me back Appa before the episode ends. That's the rules.

Final Thoughts

Unacceptable.

This episode felt contrived, everyone involved except maybe Toph had some epic moments of dumb, and to top it all off they stole Appa. I am not amused.

There was lots of setup and little story here. At least that's what it felt like. There were some fairly lame lines that came off as ham-fisted exposition. The ground hog choir was about the only funny bit. Maybe it's the utterly unacceptable ending bleeding backwards and staining the rest of the episode, but I did not like this one. It honestly would have benefited from a Zuko b-plot, and I do not say that lightly.

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #the library #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

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fuckyeahcoelacanths · 11 months

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what are all your facts, trivia, knowledge, etc on coelacanth

Yo, you can go to this place, and they have books on coelacanth, and you can read all the books, and it's FREE.

#coelacanth #coelacanth answers #go to the library #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

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superstarfighter · 5 months

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December 8, 2023 :: You could say my trip to the library was a big success. I still had an hour to kill so I sat down in one of the comfy sofas and read Heartstopper 2. I then went to the Christmas market and afterwards (drank several cups of tea to warm up) also finished volumes 3 and 4. What a lovely series. Well done, @heartstoppercomic 🫵✨✨✨

#library #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #heartstopper #books and reading #bookblr #readers never go to bed alone #reading #readers of tumblr #bookish #the golden compass #tbr #tbr pile #sweet tooth

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skeleton-richard · 3 months

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So... did I mention I'm the adult manga selector at my library now?

#manga #libraries #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #show me what a face i have #skull face bookseller honda san

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mhalachai · 1 year

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library tales

the other day i got a hold notice from my local library so I obligingly trudged over to the branch, located conveniently above an actual firehall for maximum quiet study space. With me, i had a book that I finally admitted I would never read, and instead of keeping it at home where I stared at it for weeks and kept renewing it "just in case" I got around to it... I took it back.

Which got me to thinking about what other people do, because i'm pretty sure that's not the norm.

So: Poll time

#mhalachai polls the constituency #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

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jewishraypalmer · 8 months

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My sister: did you know it's cool to be a librarian now?

Me: yeah I know I've been on Tumblr since 2011

#having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #my job is cool thanks everyone #libraries #librarians

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mayra-quijotescx · 1 year

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AND MURDERBOT SERIES BOOK ONE JUST HIT MY LIBBY SHELF

GOD BLESS

#yes. YES. now get over to my kobo so I can actually read you #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #s/o Castillon bc I'm almost certain I first heard of this series from you

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trekkele · 1 year

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Read Iron Widow over the weekend, 12/10 exactly what it says on the tin

#having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #iron widow #xiran jay zhao

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mahoushojo · 1 year

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Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card. 📚✨️

Thanks for the fun, Arthur. We'll take good care of your library card. 🤫

I had the best time cosplaying from Arthur together with @theemberwithin at New York Comic Con this year!

#arthur #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #muffy crosswire #francine frensky #arthur cosplay #new york comic con #nycc #new york comic con 2022 #nycc 2022 #cosplay video

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munohlow · 1 year

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#polls #jekyll and hyde #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

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kt-ls-eats-books · 2 months

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I’m reading Watchmen for my Critical Thinking and Writing class and tbh I don’t know if I should include it here! It’s pretty text heavy, but also when I started this blog I had intended to not count graphic novels. Also picked up Maus to have something for pleasure too. I feel like my professor would tell me to do it but idk…

#having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #not a book #I have already read Maus as a teen and i remember really liking it #I haven’t read Watchmen but I know about it

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superstarfighter · 1 year

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OHAI, don't mind me casually visiting the local library and handing back in the books I borrowed (and actually read!) these past three weeks. Not sure if embarrassed is the right word to describe how I feel (it most like is not and instead the opposite would be right to use), but I do like the look of myself wearing this outfit. ✨